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warspite1ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
ORIGINAL: warspite1
I have Hitler's Pre-Emptive War coming to me for my birthday - hussah! This is another work on the Battle for Norway in 1940. It looks like it may concentrate too much on Narvik to the detriment of the rest of the campaign, but we'll see....
Happy Birthday, old bean! Lemme guess: 62? You can't be a day over 63 then?
ORIGINAL: warspite1
For a complete change of scene I'm reading The Lost Generation. This is a book about three up and coming British racing drivers - Roger Williamson and Tony Brise (both English) and Tom Pryce (Welsh) that were tipped for success in the pinnacle of motor sport - Formula 1 - but were tragically killed between 1973, and 1977 before they got the chance to go for the big prize.
warspite1ORIGINAL: RFalvo69
ORIGINAL: warspite1
For a complete change of scene I'm reading The Lost Generation. This is a book about three up and coming British racing drivers - Roger Williamson and Tony Brise (both English) and Tom Pryce (Welsh) that were tipped for success in the pinnacle of motor sport - Formula 1 - but were tragically killed between 1973, and 1977 before they got the chance to go for the big prize.
Have you seen "Rush" by Ron Howard? Beside being a great movie, it is also a great reconstruction of when having 2-3 pilots dead every season was totally normal.
ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
Just finished Keegan's one-volume The First World War. A good general review of the entirety of the war. What a bloody shambles...[:(]
ORIGINAL: loki100
ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
Just finished Keegan's one-volume The First World War. A good general review of the entirety of the war. What a bloody shambles...[:(]
A good follow on is Margaret McMillan's Peacemakers mainly about the Versailles portion of the post-war peace making process. If the war was a shambles, what followed more than matched it.
Its a seriously good book, debunks a lot of myths, I think is a bit too generous to some participants, but does an excellent job of capturing the attempts (such as they were) to balance off national interests, Wilson's intermittent interest in a new approach and all the various national/ethnic/etc lobby groups that turned up to press this or that cause.
ORIGINAL: loki100
ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
Just finished Keegan's one-volume The First World War. A good general review of the entirety of the war. What a bloody shambles...[:(]
A good follow on is Margaret McMillan's Peacemakers mainly about the Versailles portion of the post-war peace making process. If the war was a shambles, what followed more than matched it.
Its a seriously good book, debunks a lot of myths, I think is a bit too generous to some participants, but does an excellent job of capturing the attempts (such as they were) to balance off national interests, Wilson's intermittent interest in a new approach and all the various national/ethnic/etc lobby groups that turned up to press this or that cause.
Lions and Donkeys Myth? [&:]ORIGINAL: wodin
Again check out Pandoras Box.
Also 're WW1 the lions and donkeys myth was so entrenched for many years that probably best going for recent titles.
ORIGINAL: loki100
ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
Just finished Keegan's one-volume The First World War. A good general review of the entirety of the war. What a bloody shambles...[:(]
A good follow on is Margaret McMillan's Peacemakers mainly about the Versailles portion of the post-war peace making process. If the war was a shambles, what followed more than matched it.
Its a seriously good book, debunks a lot of myths, I think is a bit too generous to some participants, but does an excellent job of capturing the attempts (such as they were) to balance off national interests, Wilson's intermittent interest in a new approach and all the various national/ethnic/etc lobby groups that turned up to press this or that cause.
